Extradition of Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Extradition of Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC)
A new beginning to end the culture of impunity
 

 
The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) as the coordinator of the Arab Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ACICC) which includes 65 Arab non-governmental organizations expresses its satisfaction at the announcement of the Sudanese government regarding the possibility of handing over the former Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and his assistants Ahmed Haroun and Ali Kushayb to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The announcement came as an implementation of the decision issued by the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I on 3/3/2009 to fulfill the request of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region since 2002 resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians and the displacement of more than 2700000 million people according to the indictment issued by the International Criminal Court Prosecutors Office and the United Nations

ACIJLP also believes that the Sudanese governments decision to cooperate with the ICC on extraditing Omar al-Bashir is the optimal implementation of cooperation and integration between the Sudanese judicial system and the International Criminal Court which is a good step that contributes to achieving international criminal justice as well as applying the principle of criminal accountability against the most serious crimes perpetrators.
ACIJLP stresses upon the role that the ICC as well as the cooperation of the international community with its mechanisms plays in limiting the culture of impunity of which the main victim was the fundamental human rights of peace and security the thing that all peoples of the world have undertaken to protect.
While welcoming this declaration from the Sudanese government ACIJLP calls on the Sudanese government as a means of fulfilling its international commitments and obligations being a member of United Nations to stand for criminal justice not to let political considerations overcome justice and human rights and to resume cooperation with the International Criminal Court by taking action to hand over Mr. Ahmed Haroun Mr. Ali Kushayb and the former Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir to the ICC.
ACIJLP also calls on the international community to support the role of the International Criminal Court and to activate and implement its decisions regarding the prosecution and accountability of those accused of committing crimes within its jurisdiction and to try them fairly and equitably protect human rights and end the culture of impunity.